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Everett, MA - Bond Brothers of Everett announced
that Dan Flannery CPA, has been named chief financial
officer of the 102-year-old construction firm.
With over 13 years experience in the construction
industry, Flannery leads all administrative, financial and
IT functions, focusing on streamlining operations and systems utilizing latest technologies.

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Erland Gets Covidien Project
Bedford, MA - Erland Construction,
Inc. of Burlington was recently awarded
a complete gut and build-out of a twostory, 70,000sf building for Covidien in
the Crosby Corporate Center in Bedford.
Teaming with Maugel Architects, Erland
will complete the project this winter. This
is the second time that Erland has managed
a construction project for Covidien. The
first – completed in 2008 – was a major
renovation and expansion for its corporate

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For the Bedford project, Erland will
transform the first floor of the building into
office space for the sales, marketing, and
human resources departments. The second
floor will become manufacturing and R&D
with several different types of laboratories,
clean rooms, and a clean/dry room. The
project will apply for a Construction Interiors (CI) LEED certification.

Beverly, MA - The Massachusetts
Building Congress (MBC) announced
plans to induct three new MBC Hall of
Fame honorees during the association’s
annual dinner on October 22.
The 2009 inductees include Bond
Brothers, J.C. Cannistraro LLC and Wentworth Institute of Technology.
Bond Brothers is a fourth generation-led construction company founded
in 1907. Based in Everett, Bond Brothers provides construction services to both
building and utility clients throughout New
England. Bond’s positive family business
culture and history of strong philanthropic
support for the region’s nonprofit organizations earned the jury’s praise.
J.C. Cannistraro LLC is one of the
largest family-owned, privately held mechanical contracting firms in the nation.
Founded in 1963, it now has over 400
employees. The jury was impressed with
the company’s application of new Build-

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support for sustainable practices, and its
creation of a new Plumbing Museum to
educate students and others.
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has trained generations of leaders in the
design and construction industry, and is
universally admired for its community service and civic engagement. The Institute is
one of the design and construction industry’s best resources for advancing practical
knowledge in the profession.
The MBC Hall of Fame Annual Dinner begins at 6 p.m. at the Seaport Cityview
Ballroom with a networking reception, followed by dinner and the program at 7 p.m.
Tickets for the event are $175, with tables
of 10 for $1,750, and a limited number of
sponsorships available. Register by calling
the MBC office at 978-921-9222, or go to
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AIANH
Scholarship
Winners
Keene, NH - New Hampshire
Chapter of the American Institute of
Architects (AIANH) and the New
Hampshire Architecture Foundation
(NHAF) announced the recipients of
their jointly sponsored scholarship
programs for New Hampshire residents.
$1,000 grants were given to
Michael Kulikowski of Merrimack,
who attends Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and Julie
Rahilly, entering the Wentworth Institute of Technology this fall. A $500
award went to Michelle Wood, also
at Virginia Tech. Both Rahilly and
Wood are from Nashua.

Meridian
Launches
New Site
Beverly, MA - Meridian Associates
of Beverly has launched a new Web site
at http://www.meridianassoc.com. The new
format, designed for client convenience,
encourages visitors to access information
through a variety of categories familiar to
people in multiple industries and sectors.

NAIOP Helps Children in Need
Quincy, MA - More than 20 members
of Boston’s commercial real estate community braved the hottest day of the year
to spend an afternoon sorting, lifting, and
packing clothes and school supplies for
children in need as part of NAIOP’s fourth
Community Service Day.
Held on August 18 at the Cradles to
Crayons Giving Factory in Quincy, the day
provided members the opportunity to roll
up their sleeves and help package clothes
and school supplies for the area’s neediest
children.
Sponsored by A.W. Perry, the halfday event was organized in partnership
with Building Impact, and involved more
than a dozen local real estate firms.
Volunteers began their shift with an

More than 20 NAIOP members and staff came together for an afternoon shift packing
school supplies and sorting clothing and toy donations at Cradles to Crayons’ “Giving
Factory.”

informal lunch followed by a brief
training session by
C2C staff, which
included a presentation by a local
organization that
relies on C2C’s
services. Volunteers then split
into teams, with
one working to
fill more than 175
backpacks
with
school supplies as
part of the organization’s massive
Ready for School
Drive.
Two volunteers sort through bags of donated clothing, separating by
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type, gender, and condition.

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team sorted through a mountain of donated
clothes, toys, books, and other items, organizing enough donations to send at least 25
children back to school with proper seasonal clothing. In addition, many volunteers
brought additional school supplies, backpacks, and other donations gathered during
in-office drives and private donations.
“A.W. Perry is pleased to have sponsored and participated with NAIOP in
this community service event,” said Kerri
Spurr Gallaway, A.W. Perry’s Assistant
Vice President, who came with several coworkers. “It gives us a great sense of fulfillment knowing that we were able to make a
difference to this worthwhile organization
that has such positive impact on children in
our community.”
The event was organized by NAIOP’s
Charitable Events Committee.

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n our Green News section “Clean EnWashington D.C. and Boston codes
ergy: A Fresh Look at Old Ideas” (page both require that all new private develop22) Chris Clark points out an
ments larger than 50,000sf meet at
important transformation in how the
least the lowest LEED standard.
sustainability movement of the 90’s
A recently enacted San
has come of age. We have watched
Francisco ordinance applies green
as green building has gone from a
building standards to new comnew desirable development immercial structures over 5,000sf.
provement to a necessary ingredient
**
to compete in facilities developHigh-Profile Monthly will
Barnes
ment. As Clark points out, “investbe addressing old and new green
ments in clean energy are not only capable solutions though a new publication “Green
of reducing their top line expenses, but can Facilities Development” to debut as an anprovide an attractive bottom-line return for nual supplement in November. The puryears to come.”
pose of the publication is to focus special
In “Breaking Down the Tower of Ba- attention on decision makers in the greenbel” Rob Watson notes “Research by the ing of New England facilities as well as the
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory people and companies who play a keyrole
recognized that without proper monitor- in carrying out their decisions.
ing buildings can lose up to 20 percent of
“Green Facilities Development” will
their savings post-retrofit, which concerned identify the sustainable institutional, edumany utilities at the height of the first wave cational, biomedical, industrial, and comof demand-side management programs mercial building projects in progress and
in the late ‘80s. LBNL recommended the the personalities active in their construcdevelopment of a protocol to ensure that tion.
ongoing building performance was staying
It will do this through feature articles,
close to the expected baseline.” *
news items, and informative interviews
Also, since the green movement be- with a focus on sustainability attributed to
gan we have encountered more evidence owners and developers, architects and enwhich point out, in many cases, that the gineers, project managers and consultants,
problem of unsustainablity is even more contractors, subcontractors and others.
serious than previously imagined. LEED
If you have an interest in promoting
certification has become increasingly man- your company’s green attributes e-mail
datory in locations across the United States, editor@high-profile.com.
and understanding of the new LEED 2009
*http://www.greenerbuildings.com/
(a.k.a. LEED v3) system promulgated by blog/2009/07/21/breaking-down-towerthe United States Green Building Council babel
(USGBC) is crucial. As of June 27, 2009,
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Bufftree Donates to Edu Foundation
Dartmouth, MA - Thanks to
the success of the Beach Bum Ball,
Bufftree Foundation’s eighth annual fundraiser, Bufftree Building Company coowner Scott Costa, along with Foundation
board member Robert Baarsvik, DDS,
recently presented a check for $15,000 to
John Beauregard representing the Dartmouth Education Foundation.

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The Dartmouth Education Foundation (DEF) was founded in 2007 by a group
of parents and citizens in Dartmouth concerned with the effects of decreased public funding on the quality of education in
the town’s public schools. The DEF was
formed to ensure enhanced and enriched
education opportunities for students in the
town of Dartmouth.

September, 2009

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High-Profile: Facilities Development News

Rendering of the new Kroc Center in Roxbury. Courtesy of The Architectural Team

Suffolk Breaks Ground for Kroc Corps Community Ctr.
Collaborates with The Architectural Team
Boston, MA - Suffolk Construction joined the Salvation Army of Massachusetts and state and local officials for
the groundbreaking for the Boston Ray
and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center
in the Uphams-Dudley section of North
Dorchester/Roxbury.
The 90,000sf, $33 million commu-

nity center will feature a gymnasium, fitness center, chapel/theater, aquatics center,
daycare center, classrooms, computer lab,
art room, and prayer chapel.
Over the past two years, Suffolk has
worked hand and hand with the local community, in partnership with the Dudley
Street Neighborhood Initiative, to establish

a blueprint for achieving workforce goals.
Suffolk also has collaborated closely
with the Salvation Army and The Architectural Team while providing preconstruction services for the Kroc Center.
Suffolk is scheduled to complete the
facility in 2011.

John Fish, Suffolk CEO; Mayor Tom
Menino; and Major William Bode of the
Salvation Army at the groundbreaking
ceremony.

Boston, MA – TRO
Jung|Brannen has raised more
than $100,000 in four years to
benefit the Dana-Farber Cancer
Institute.
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team and developed an auction to raise
million project.
funds for the team.
UMass ofﬁcials held a dedication
This year seven riders from the firm
ceremony in August for the opening of
completed the two-day, 190-mile bike ride;
the 864-bed project known as the North
Mark Jussaume, COO, PE, LEED AP; DaResidential Area.
principal, AIA, LEED AP;
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ARC completed the design of the
Joe
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principal, AIA, LEED AP;
Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is topped off.
four new apartment-style residence halls
Mike Quinlan, associate, AIA, LEED AP,
in September of 2005 and construction
Pamela Mace, associate, AIA, LEED AP;
started in June 2005. Totaling 325,000 sf,
Tara Redman, NCIDQ; and Lesley Hayes,

New UMass Student Apartme

Stake Center Tops Off

the ﬁve-story buildings were designed to
relate to the earlier residence halls that
incorporate brick exteriors, pitched roofs
in the center of the building.
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pattern
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Cambridge, MA - The steel framing
that forms the future home of the Cambridge Stake Center for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) was
topped off recently, marking a critical point
in the construction of the building as the
final steel beam was lifted into place.
The project, overseen by Consigli
Construction Co., Inc., consists of a twostory, multi-purpose structure with classrooms, offices and meeting rooms surrounding a double-height sanctuary space

cultural hall, that will be used mostly for
social activities or as an overflow room if
required for larger holiday services. When
complete, it will become the headquarters
of the Cambridge stake, representing a regional population of 4,000 Mormons worshipping in 14 area congregations.
The 35,892sf project is scheduled for
completion in February, 2010. The architect on the project is Burt, Hill of Boston.

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Nonprofit on the Move

ing and Speech Center, Inc., a non-profit
hearing and speech center, will relocate.
to accommodate its current and future
space needs based on test fits for alternate locations provided by Gawron Turgeon Architects of Scarborough.
Northeast Hearing & Speech Center’s new space totals approximately
7,830sf. The new office will include
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Elkus Manfredi Architects
Boston, MA - Mayor Thomas M.
Menino joined officials from the Boston
Redevelopment Authority, Massport and
Cresset Harborside LLC to celebrate the
construction of Liberty Wharf – South
Boston Waterfront’s newest commercial
project.
The $30 million Liberty Wharf includes the construction of three new buildings totaling approximately 70,000sf, making way for a new restaurant, additional
office space and open space along the waterfront.
The east building will include
18,850sf of restaurant space that will be occupied by Legal Sea Foods. The 50,000sf
west building will house office space on the
third and fourth floors with two additional
restaurant spaces on the first and second
floors.
Additionally, a small 1,500sf kiosk
building with indoor and outdoor café seating will be constructed adjacent to the west
building and Fish Pier.

The project also includes an approximate 570-foot extension of the HarborWalk,
as well as a public landing to support water
taxis and charter fishing vessels, granting
new public access to Boston harbor where
no such waterfront access previously existed. In total, the project includes nearly
50% open space for the public to enjoy.
Consistent with the city’s new green
building zoning regulations, the development team will seek LEED certification, as
the buildings will incorporate energy and
water conserving features, among other design elements.
The Liberty Wharf development team
includes Edward Nardi of Cresset Harborside LLC as the developer and Elkus Manfredi as the architectural firm. Two companies are overseeing the construction of the
project – RDA Construction Corporation
is constructing the wharf and John Moriarty & Associates is constructing the new
buildings. The project is being financed by
Sovereign Bank.

Schwartz/Silver Architects
Andover, MA - Consigli Construction Co., Inc. has completed the
gut renovation of the Phillips Academy Paresky Dining Commons in Andover.
The team of Phillips Academy,
Consigli and Schwartz/Silver Architects faced the challenge of preserving
the building’s historic features while
incorporating sustainable upgrades
allowing the facility to pursue LEED
certification for Commercial Interiors
from the US Green Building Council.
The team took careful steps to
preserve the building’s original details,
including Georgian Style paneling,
chandeliers and murals, which were
all carefully protected throughout construction. The team also restored the
Alabama limestone walls in the foyer
and stairways.
New centralized food preparation and service areas were created on

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both floors, featuring multiple serving
stations and, on the first floor, a massive hearth oven.
New space and light have been
brought into the Dining Commons,
with 15-foot ceilings in the first-floor
servery, and newly exposed windows
at the back of the building.
The building’s LEED components include conventional recycledcontent materials as well as a first-ofits-kind fume hood that saves energy
due to its individually-controlled fan
systems, a new standard in commercial kitchen efficiency.
High-efficiency kitchen equipment abounds, and the team achieved
a recycle/reuse rate of 98.2 percent,
with items like 68,000 lbs. of granite
that once formed the steps of the prerenovation Commons becoming the
curbing for the new student drop-off
area.

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High-Profile: Facilities Development News

EEC and AdaptivCool Form Alliance
Marlborough, MA - Electronic
Environments Corporation (EEC)– provider of design, engineering, energy
management and service solutions for
mission critical facilities such as data
centers–announced the formation of an
industry alliance with AdaptivCool–
provider of expert data center airflow
and thermal management solutions. This
alliance is designed to help companies
of all sizes reduce energy expenses and
operating costs.
EEC will provide AdaptivCool’s
HotSpotr and Room Scale Intelligent
Cooling (RSIC) system as part of its
core offering, expanding the breadth and
Recent ground breaking for the Andrew J. Allard Memorial Youth Center

Grace Capital Church Breaks Ground
Pembroke, NH - NorthPoint Construction Management of Hudson recently
broke ground on the new Andrew J. Allard
Memorial Youth Center for Grace Capital
Church in Pembroke.
The 8,400sf design/build project
includes a gym and several new meeting
rooms and classrooms.
The architect for the project is Wayne
Salo of Salo Dixon Architects.
This multi-purpose center will be
used for church and community functions,
serve as a central meeting place as well as
supply much needed additional space for

the growth of the church itself.
Along with the construction of the
youth center, renovations are being made
within the existing structure to provide
more space for fellowship and additional
offices for the growing staff. The project
is expected to be completed by the end of
the year.
The Youth Center is named in honor of Andrew J. Allard, a member of the
youth group who had a positive influence
on many people. He passed away in 2007
at the age of 13.

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solutions—with an added emphasis on
data center energy management.
“We recognize that the AdaptivCool solution represents a compelling
value proposition to the ever evolving
data center market nationwide, and we
are proud to have them as part of our
expanding solution set,” says Michael
Kingsley, president of EEC.
Founded in 1986, EEC provides
critical facility solutions to information
technology and telecommunication facilities of all sizes. EEC is headquartered
in Marlborough and has offices located
throughout the United States.

SCUP Upcoming Events
The Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) provides its members with the knowledge and resources to
establish and achieve institutional planning goals within the context of best practices and emerging trends.
Upcoming events in 2009:
October 7–9, 2009
2009 Southern Regional Conference, “Enhancing and Maintaining
Your Institution’s Cultural Heritage.”
Doubletree Hotel, Memphis, TN
Oct. 26–28, 2009
2009 North Central Regional Con-

In The Pipeline
- New Healthcare Projects
A complimentary newsletter provides a snapshot of the new construction projects available at http://www.
healthcareconstruction.com. Below are
the edited results from a few weeks of
notices:
Litchfield Athletic Club.
Project Type: Athletic Facilities,
Hospitals/Clinics, Retail (Shops/Restaurants)
Value: $.640 million
Planning and approval stage.Construction of a two-story, 4,500sf addition to the Litchfield Athletic Club. The
expansion would accommodate physical therapy rooms, private office space,
a juice bar and lounge and a place for
older children to stay while parents are
working out. A larger parking area is
also part of the project.
Owner: Alan Landau, Principal,
Litchfield Athletic Club
ph: 860-567-3510 - http://www.
litchfieldathleticclub.com
Danbury Hospital Heat and
Power Plant
Project Type: Hospitals/Clinics,
Mfg./Industrial/Warehouse
Value: $17.4 million
Location: Danbury, CT.
Planning and approval stage.

Project Type: Hospitals/Clinics
Value: $8.8 million
Location: West Haven, CT.
Renovations to the West Haven
VAMC for semi-private and private inpatient units.
Note: July 20, 2009 Funding for
this project was provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 and planning, as of 7/17/09, is ongoing.
Owner: Department of Veterans
Affairs
VA Connecticut Healthcare System
PH: 203-932-5711 - http://www.
va.gov
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Maki
Renamed Brattan Industries
Littleton, MA - After 44 years of doing business from its Worcester location, Maki
Electrical will operate under the name of Brattan Industries, Inc., and has relocated to its
new office at 95 Russell St. in Littleton.
Under new management since 2003, Brattan Industries offers complete designbuild services for electrical, fire alarm, communications, and security systems.

Rashi School Cornerstone Dedication
Green Design by HMFH Architects
Dedham, MA - The Rashi School
recently held a cornerstone dedication
ceremony at its new site in Dedham. The
82,000sf school, designed by HMFH Architects, Inc. for high performance sustainability, is located on a 166-acre campus
overlooking the Charles River.
The new Rashi School will house
classrooms and a science lab with state-ofthe-art technology, a 6,000-volume library,
art studio, dedicated music room, gymnasium, and modern kitchen. The campus

Entrance lobby for EC School in New York City. Photo credit - TPG Architecture.

Environments at Work Provides
Furniture for New School
Boston, MA - Environments at Work
has completed the installation of furniture
for the EC School in New York City. The
school selected Environments at Work to
provide furnishings for 15 classrooms, four
offices, two conference rooms, a teachers’
room, and a student lounge.
The EC Schools are part of an organization established in 1905 by Ethel Yabsley and Madeline Sceberras, who opened
a small school for the children of British
naval officers stationed in Malta at the start
of the 20th century. The schools have locations in London, Cambridge, and Brighton,
United Kingdom; Cape Town, South Africa; Boston, Mass.; San Diego, Calif.; New
York City; and Malta.

Environments at Work collaborated
with EC Schools to select all of the furniture products for the new school, and designed the furniture layouts.
“With such a long history of English teaching experience, EC Schools has
a well-developed understanding of what
works for their students and staff,” said Environments at Work Vice President Patricia
Tobin. “Our design and customer service
team enjoyed working with the school to
select products that meet the school’s international, contemporary identity and provide durable, high quality functionality.”
The architect for the project was TPG
Architecture, located in New York City.

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Canterbury School

Canterbury School Nears Completion
New Milford, CT – A.P. Construction Company, the construction management and general contracting division of
The Ashforth Company, is on schedule to
complete the Canterbury School located in
New Milford by the end of September.
The 42,000sf project included the
expansion and renovation of the school’s
Steele Hall. The hall houses the library,
cafeteria and administrative offices and re-

A.P. Construction CM
mained open while under construction.
High–sloped ceilings, exterior granite stone facing with limestone window
surrounds, aluminum and wood frame interior view windows, and wood wainscoting
are architectural design features throughout the building. Wood-framed panels were
installed to the underside of the compoundcurved existing roof/ceiling within the
library.

A.P. Construction also installed a
thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) roofing
system. Thermoplastic single-ply roofing
membranes are among the fastest growing commercial roofing products and have
gained broad industry acceptance for their
many performance enhancements and installation advantages. As demand increases for heat-reflective and energy-efficient
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brane is very popular due to its exceptional
resistance to ultraviolet, ozone and chemical exposure.
The architect of the Canterbury
School project is Butler Rogers Baskett of
New York City, and the engineer is Warner
Tietjen from Rye, NY. A.P. Construction’s
team includes Len Benigno, project manager, and superintendent Mike Steadman.

Two Academic Projects for Payette
Feasibility Study for UM,
Teaching Facility for Hofstra U
Boston, MA – Payette announced two recent academic commissions.
At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Payette was selected to provide a programming and
feasibility study for the schematic
design phase of a new 16,000sf,
energy-efficient greenhouse facility:
Bowditch Hall Research and Teaching Greenhouses.
In addition to an 11,000sf
greenhouse, the project includes a
head-house support building, which
may include potting rooms, labs,
computer room, offices, storage and
utility rooms.
The site will be created by demolition and renovation of campus
facilities that are more than 60 years
old to create a new facility to support
primary research and teaching for the
Department of Plant, Soil and Insect
Sciences.
Payette was also the designer

of the new 173,000sf Integrated
Sciences Building on the UMass
Amherst campus, which opened for
classes earlier this year.
Project team members include
Greenhouse Engineering, greenhouse consultant; R. G. Vanderweil
Engineers, MEP/FP engineer; Lim
Consultants, structural engineer; and
Daedelus, cost estimator.
Additionally, Payette is working with HLW International to develop a teaching facility for the new
Hofstra University School of Medicine in Hempstead, N.Y. The project
includes renovation of the former
New York Jets administration office and training headquarters into a
teaching facility. The program calls
for experiential learning classrooms,
medical library, a large lecture hall,
faculty offices and an anatomy lab.
HLW International is the architect-of-record.

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New Boston Renaissance Charter School Progressing
by Brian McPherson, project manager
Boston, MA - Suffolk Education began work on the new Boston Renaissance
Charter Public School this summer. The
Suffolk team is renovating an existing,
three-story mill building and warehouse in
the Hyde Park section of Boston and constructing a 20,000sf addition that will connect the two buildings.
Suffolk has partnered with Janey
Construction Management & Consulting
to form a uniquely strong and experienced
management team.
The Boston Renaissance Charter
Public School is the largest charter school
in Boston, serving 1,250 students from 10
city neighborhoods. The school consists of
the Kinder School, for grades K1 and K2;

the Primary School,
for grades 1 through
3; and the Elementary School, for grades
4, 5 and 6. The new
facility will include
classrooms for each
of these smaller
schools on separate
McPherson
floors of the existing
mill building.
The warehouse building is being
renovated to house a gymnasium, a cafeteria, a multimedia center, music classrooms
and dance studios. The connecting addition
will contain a new administrative wing, the
K1 wing, a connecting corridor and support facilities. In addition, the Suffolk Edu-

cation team will install outdoor play areas
and a recess area which will encompass 3.2
acres.
The Suffolk team wanted to include
the local community as much as possible
in the building of the new school. In order to recruit local subcontractors for the
school’s construction, Suffolk Education’s
team held a town hall meeting at Suffolk’s
training facility in Boston. The purpose of
the meeting was to expose minority contractors to potential opportunities and encourage their participation in the bidding
process on this project.
Through these efforts, Suffolk was
able to create opportunities for seven local
minority subcontractors to work on various
aspects of construction, including project
management, steel erection, site
utilities, carpentry and cleaning.
The team is also working closely
with school officials potentially to
employ parents of students who
are either interested in construction work or have construction
experience. Opportunities for two
local residents through our walk-in
application process were also created during these early stages of the
project.
Work on the new school is
progressing as scheduled, and Suffolk Education will complete the
facility in time for the beginning of
the 2010 school year.

C.E. Floyd Builds
at Day School
Peterman Architects

Fairfield, CT – C.E. Floyd Company teamed up with Peterman Architects of Concord, Mass. to build a
625sf classroom addition and renovate
4,000sf of space at Fairfield Country
Day School’s Lower School in Fairfield, Conn. over the summer recess.
The project is registered for LEED Silver certification.
The project team is diverting
more than 90% of construction debris
from landfills through separating materials on-site, donating materials to
Habitat for Humanity and recycling
existing materials such as carpet, ceiling tiles and light fixtures.
C.E. Floyd is also aiming to
achieve credits for using regionally
sourced materials, FSC-certified lumber and materials made of recycled
content.
The project team is seeking 14
credits under Indoor Environmental
Quality, 10 under Materials and Resources, eight under Sustainable Sites
as well as other miscellaneous credits.
Five classrooms, two specialist
classrooms, a corridor and a teacher’s
workroom are getting a facelift, while
one new classroom is being added. The
building serves first, second and third
graders.

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Danvers, MA - Republic Building

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Lincoln Elementary School, Newton North High School, Quincy High
School, Dr. Albert F. Argenziano
School in Somerville, and Worcester North High School. The awards
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and installation. This highly
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to the adoption of state regulations that have required all
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construction reimbursement
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School Building Authority
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to implement numerous
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of up to 2% of construction
costs for MA-CHPS Verified high-performance green schools.
High-performance green school
buildings save an average of 25% in
energy costs over traditional schools
and have superior indoor environmental qualities.
Since 2002, the Trust has supported more than 80 schools in their
efforts to incorporate renewable energy systems and other green elements
into their facilities through the Green
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High-Profile: Green Facilities Development News

Contractors, Inc., a commercial general
construction company based in Danvers,
announced that Mark F. Rogers has become
a LEED Accredited
Professional
and
was recently certified by the US Green
Building
Council
(USGBC) to promote buildings that
are environmentally
responsible, efficient
and healthy places to
live and work.
Rogers
Rogers is an
estimator and project manager who has
been with the company since 2003.”

Sixteen Schools Go Green
Boston MA - The Massachusetts Renewable Energy Trust announced funding approval totaling
more than $3 million for high-performance green schools. Funding is being awarded to nine schools for solar
photovoltaic (PV) arrays; six schools
for green school design assistance;
and one school for both green school
design assistance and a
solar PV array.
“Going green has
tremendous benefits,”
said Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources Commissioner
Phil Giudice, who chairs
the Trust’s governing
board. “Solar electricity and green design
elements like advanced
air systems and natural lighting are smart
choices for schools—
conserving energy and
natural resources while
creating a healthier environment for
our children and education professionals. The combination of high-efficiency systems, innovative design,
and proper operation mean that green
schools can cost far less to maintain
than traditional schools.”
The nine schools that have been
approved for solar PV installation
funding are: Beverly High School,
Bridgewater Raynham Regional High
School, Cambridge Rindge & Latin
School, Manchester-Essex Regional
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Accelerates Recovery, Helps Firms Win Work
By William Ronco, PhD, Programs
leaders is the first step companies can of monthly workshops for small, strategiDirector, Gathering Pace Consulting
take to achieve strategic and long lasting cally mixed groups – owners, architects,
The Green Roundtable’s new Green value – for every goal, not just green build- engineers, contractors and consultants. To
Change Leaders Circle accelerates build- ing,” comments Barbra Batshalom, Green ensure maximum impact, group size is liming owners’, A&E and construction firms’ Roundtable Executive Director. Prominent ited to 10. The program delivers valuable,
emergence from the recession. The pro- Boston architect Scott Simpson of Kling- lasting results both for change management
gram provides the essential change man- Stubbins, notes, “Going green is not just leaders responsible for their organization’s
agement strategies and skills owners, ar- about counting LEED points. It requires green progress and younger practitioners
chitects, engineers and contractors need a change in mindset that must pervade the who want to add change management skills
to meet the demand for sustainable design entire organization.”
to their professional toolkit.
and construction.
Many high-level deciShareholders and senior execusion-makers in the industry
“Going green is not just about counting
tives in all kinds of organizations are
have found the leadership cirLEED
points.
It
requires
a
change
in
mindset
demanding more and better sustaincles invaluable. Ralph DeFlothat must pervade the entire organization.”
able design and construction. Buildrio, Harvard Divinity School
–Barbra Batshalom,
ing owners are already awarding new
Director of Operations, notes,
projects based on service provider
“The Leader’s Circle programs
firms’ sustainable achievements, and
provide a valuable foundation
this trend will only strengthen in the comMost building owners, architecture, to bridge differences and enable change
engineering and construction companies to be successfully implemented.” Leila
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The Green Change Leaders Circle have designated green leaders, and most Kamal AIA, LEED APand Vice President,
provides the skills owners need to improve green leaders are highly motivated and EYPA/E points out, “We need to think difbottom-line performance and more clearly technically skilled. However, few of them ferently about how we approach design.
align real estate and planning with organi- possess the change management strategies Leaders Circle provides critical tools to
zational strategy. For architects, engineers and skills to match their beliefs. The Green understand how we can influence behavior
and contractors, the program delivers the Change Leaders Circle arms green change and overcome natural resistance.”
change management tools that meet own- leaders with the change management strateProgram leader Dr. William Ronco
ers’ demands and win work.
gies and skills to successfully drive change has led more than 20 leaders’ circle groups
The program takes organizations’ both throughout their own organizations and is an industry expert in change mansustainable efforts – many of which are and in partnering with others.
agement, partnering, strategy and leaderstalled – to much higher levels of perforBeginning September 24, the innova- ship development.
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DPU Gives Green Light
Utility Solar Ownership OK
Boston, MA - The Department of
Public Utilities (DPU) recently approved
the first utility company proposal to own
and operate solar energy installations, as
authorized by the Green Communities
Act of 2008, giving a green light to Western Massachusetts Electric Company’s
(WMECO) plans to construct and deploy
approximately six megawatts (MW) of solar photovoltaic power throughout its service territory.
Designed to promote the development of renewable energy and stimulate the
Commonwealth’s clean energy economy,
the Green Communities Act gave utility
companies the ability to own and operate
solar electric installations up 50 MW. Just
as utilities bill customers for the cost of

fossil-fuel generated electricity, the cost of
utility-owned solar power will be recouped
through ratepayer revenues. The WMECO
order includes a settlement between the
company and the attorney general ensuring
that costs of the utility’s solar program will
include stricter cost controls and be spread
over more years than the company originally proposed.
“Today’s action is consistent with
Governor Patrick’s pursuit of a robust solar energy industry in Massachusetts,”
DPU Chairman Paul Hibbard said. “It
moves the Commonwealth closer to the
governor’s goal of 250 megawatts of solar
power by 2017, while protecting ratepayers by spreading out the cost of financing
WMECO’s solar ownership program.”

Three Earn LEED Accreditation
Maynard,
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Andrew
Coull, president,
Thomas
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Dube
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gracing the surface.

USM Library Gets LEED Silver
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ME
- The
new
Osher Map Library at the University of
Southern Maine Portland campus received LEED Silver designation from the
US Green Building Council. Many of the
points that determine the level of LEED
designation were acquired through special efforts by the construction managers,
Wright-Ryan Construction, of Portland.
The building, which houses 20,000
maps and more than 1,500 rare books and
atlases, was built with green in mind, but
Wright-Ryan needed to pay special attention to the operating systems to be sure that

they would be sufficient for the temperature and humidity requirements of the rare
documents. During the construction of the
LEED building, Wright-Ryan was able to
divert 80% of all waste from landfills and
utilize local subcontractors and suppliers.
The building also features many regional
or sustainable materials in order to reduce
its carbon footprint.
The exterior skin of the building is
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building itself has been transformed into
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USGBC Expo Gets
Fastest 50 Award
Washington, DC - The US Green
Building Council’s (USGBC) 2008
Greenbuild International Conference
and Expo has been selected by Tradeshow Week as one of the 50 fastest
growing trade shows in the US and
Canada.
Greenbuild 2008 was held in Boston and drew more than 28,000 attendees and featured 800 exhibit booths. It is
the largest gathering of representatives
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Boston, MA - Margulies Perruzzi Architects announced that three of the firm’s
professional staff have recently achieved
recognition as Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited
Professionals. With this announcement,
almost three-quarters of Margulies Perruzzi Architects’ professional staff are now
LEED APs.
Jane Sullivan, IIDA, LEED AP, interior designer, has 19 years of experience
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• Solar Photovoltaic and Thermal • Wind
• Geothermal Heat Pumps • Energy Efficiency
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Virgin Money occupies the top three floors of a six-story office building.

Virgin Money Leed Certified

Waltham, MA - Virgin Money, a social lending company in Waltham, chose
Bergmeyer Associates and Commodore
Builders to design and remodel a sustainable office space. Virgin Money occupies
28,500sf on the top three floors of a sixstory office building.
The project took place in the spring
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came through in August of this year. The
space was a remodeled interior construction
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a large kitchen/lounge/rec area.
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Local Green Building Featured On Tour
The Northeast Sustainable Energy
Association (NESEA) will present its annual Green Buildings Open House on
Saturday, October 3, from 10 a.m. 4 p.m.
Boston Green Building, a member of NESEA, invites the public to a free tour of a
residence of one of its clients.
Boston Green Building is a sustainable general contractor specializing
in residential green construction. They
build attractive, healthy, and comfortable
environments for their clients by offering a unique service not found with most
conventional contractors: namely, building green. In all of their projects, Boston
Green Building aims to maximize energy
efficiency, incorporate the use of environmentally responsible nontoxic materials,
minimize waste and employ eco-friendly
concepts.
The residence that will be open to the
public as part of NESEA’s Green Buildings
Open House tour is located on Beacon Hill
in Boston at 1 Chestnut Street.
In this multi-unit building is a condominium featuring a green kitchen that
the public is welcome to visit. Designed
by Hickox-Williams architects and CleverGreen Cabinetry, this green kitchen features locally sourced materials: Vermont
slate countertops, cherry hardwood and
curly maple from Pennsylvania. On all of
these woods, nontoxic water-based clear
coat finishes were used.
High-efficiency appliances and Ultra-Touch recycled denim insulation save

View of green kitchen at 1 Chestnut Street
the client energy, and a mini-split ductless
AC system cools only those rooms being
occupied. A Bosch condensing dryer eliminated the need to penetrate the building envelope for venting. Paint is “Mythic” nontoxic, zero VOC. Historical accuracy was
adhered to with the replication of damaged
sections of original plaster crown mouldings. These profiles are echoed in the cabi-

netry trim as well.
The Massachusetts New Homes with
ENERGY STAR Program is the title sponsor for this year’s Green Buildings Open
House. The ENERGY STAR Program is
sponsored by electric and gas utilities and
energy efficiency service providers. The
role of the program is to promote and support the construction of energy-efficient

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In addition to the
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will also be open to the
public include businesses,
commercial
buildings,
public buildings, schools,
and private homes demonstrating the use of passive
solar heating, solar hot water collection and storage,
radiant floor heating, photovoltaics or wind to generate electricity, energysaving techniques such as
super-insulation and sealing air spaces, sustainable
and healthy building materials, and water-saving
fixtures.
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Green
Buildings Open House,
part of the American Solar
Energy Society’s National Solar Tour, is an
opportunity to learn firsthand how incorporating green elements can help reduce
heating costs, increase energy conservation, and even generate surplus clean energy. Visit nesea.org to see a complete list of
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BE Building Corporation, formerly
Konover Construction Corporation,
is putting the final touches on the
last of three technical high schools in Connecticut that were renovated as part of an
overall effort to restructure and modernize
the course offerings, programs, equipment
and facilities of the state’s technical schools.
Over the years, Connecticut technical high schools have educated thousands of
students in the construction trades, occupational-specific training and apprenticeships,
manufacturing technologies, automotive
technologies, culinary arts and hospitality
skills.
KBE has been involved in ambitious

projects at W.F. Kaynor Technical High
School in Waterbury, E.C. Goodwin Technical High School in New Britain, and Norwich Technical High School in Norwich.
Each of these projects presented its own
unique challenges, including completing the
renovations with the entire student body on
the premises.
“Each of these projects involved outstanding collaboration between everyone
involved – the State Department of Public
Works’ project managers, the design teams,
trade contractors, and the faculty, staff and
students,” said Mike Kolakowski, President
and CEO of KBE Building Corporation.
“Our experience in working in occupied

Kaestle Boos Associates
spaces, particularly in the education market,
allowed us to easily flow from one phase of
the project to the next.”
W.F. Kaynor Technical High School
underwent renovation and new additions that
will improve site circulation, upgrade the
school’s vocational shops, and implement
high-tech, fully digital academic classrooms
and laboratories. The current classroom wing
was demolished to make way for a new,
three-story academic wing and gymnasium.

This will allow creation of the large classrooms needed to accommodate digital technology and assist in reducing congestion at
the entrance. KBE renovated the school’s
trade classrooms and performed an upgrade
on all of the building systems. The school
will remain fully operational throughout the
multi-phased construction.
“ A key design goal was to foster pride
in vocational education with a cutting edge
facility that features the latest technology and
supports the curriculum by utilizing strong
architectural forms that communicate a clear,
vibrant identity for both the shops area and
the academic wing,” said Julija Singer, AIA,
LEED AP, design architect from The S/L/
A/M Collaborative.
E.C. Goodwin Technical High School
underwent its first major renovation and upgrade project in over 25 years. The school
was built in 1962. The seven-phase project
includes new and renovated academic classrooms, technical shop space, administrative
areas and support space, new athletic fields,
and new parking lots. Modernizing and expanding the school will not only benefit the
students and faculty but will ultimately benefit the workforce in the New Britain region
for many years to come.
“For the E.C. Goodwin Technical High
School, we worked very successfully with
KBE to create the look and academic experience of a 21st century technical school,” said
David King, AIA, and principal of Kaestle
Boos Architects, based in New Britain,
Conn.
Norwich Technical High School was
completed in December of 2008. KBE converted an existing 100,000sf community college into a 200,000sf state-of-the-art technical high school. As with the others, the
facility remained fully operational during
this phased construction project. The school
includes more than 15 technical education
and science labs, full academic facilities, auditorium, media center, gymnasium, and caf-

Above: Norwich Technical High School - Photos by Woodruff & Brown Photography
eteria and dining facilities. M/E/P and data
systems were also upgraded throughout.
“As the architect, our charge for the
Norwich Technical High School project was
to create, in effect, an entirely new school
out of the existing facility,” explains Richard
Brown, AIA, partner with Moser Pilon Nelson Architects of Wethersfield, Conn., and
architect for the Norwich Technical High

School project. “We created a totally new
building image, using a design vocabulary
that engages the students and moves away
from the existing, rather drab aesthetic of the
original school. The complexity of the phasing demanded a significant cooperative effort
and commitment between the design team,
the school, the construction administrator
and KBE Building Corporation.”

“Proud to work with KBE providing HVAC, Plumbing,
Fire Protection, Electrical and Telecommunications design
for the Norwich Technical High School project.”

Above and Left: Kaynor Technical High Shcool
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Shrewsbury, MA - Margulies Perruzzi Architects has
completed the design of ReadyMED by Fallon Clinic. Located
in Shrewsbury, ReadyMED is
the first physician-staffed, walkin medical care clinic in Central
Massachusetts to offer convenient, non-emergency medical
services for adults, infants and
(l-r) Dr. Robert Yood, board Chairman, Fallon Clinic; Dr. Michael Chin, physician,
children. A ribbon-cutting and
ReadyMED; Moe DePaulo, Shrewsbury selectman; Moira Miller, Shrewsbury selectopen house were held at the
man, Chairwoman; Mark Margulies, principal, Margulies Perruzzi Architects; Dr. Jack
clinic on August 4. ConstrucDutzar, president/CEO, Fallon Clinic; Dr. Nelson Yuen, medical director, ReadyMED;
tion management services were
Karen Polito, state representative, 11th Worcester District; John I. Lebeaux, Shrewsprovided by Cutler Associates of
bury selectman, vice Chairman; and Fred Mulligan, president, Cutler Associates.
Worcester.
The 5,000sf ReadyMED
Focused on patient convenience, creates a comfortable, attractive envifacility stands out from retail
the
design
concept for the ReadyMED ronment, while also maintaining paclinics in that physicians will be on
clinic
aims
to demystify the relation- tient privacy. Separate waiting rooms
the premises at all times, as well as adship
between
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care
provider.
This is achieved using and patients have access to wireless Inprofessionals. The facility also features
transparency
throughout
the space that ternet in the waiting areas.
X-ray and laboratory services on-site.
“With ReadyMED, Fallon Clinic has reconceived the entire walk-in
medical care experience from start to
finish,” said Marc Margulies, principal
of Margulies Perruzzi Architects. “Our
design team met this exciting challenge by discarding any pre-conceived
notions of what a clinical environment
should be. We worked from a blank
slate to create the model for an exceptional walk-in medical care experience
that sets the clinic’s cutting-edge clinical resources and tools within a pleasurable, efficient environment.”

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High-Profile Feature: Residential Village at Montserrat College of Art

Residential Village at Montserrat College of Art
A Masterpiece in Livability and Sustainability

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everly, MA - From top to bottom
and inside and out, the buildings at
the Helena J. Sturnick Village at the
Montserrat College of Art contain environmentally friendly materials and technologies that reduce water and energy use and
limit emissions of harmful chemicals and
pollutants – making it the greenest building
on the campus.
The future home of 87 students, the
$6.5 million, 27,000sf project was delivered on time and on budget under a designbuild collaboration between Windover
Construction of Manchester by the Sea and
Siemasko + Verbridge Architects of Beverly.
Located in the heart of downtown
Beverly, this green masterpiece, a grouping
of two-, three-, and four-story buildings,
integrates the historic architectural fabric
of the surrounding homes with new environmentally friendly technologies.
The green roof provides storm water
retention and mitigates solar heat gain and
loss, and the landscaping includes drought
resistant plants that require less water.
Inside, all appliances and lighting are
highly energy-efficient, and water use is reduced via low-flow plumbing fixtures.
Windover also used low VOC paint
throughout to reduce harmful chemical
emissions.
The central heating and air conditioning system, a Mitsubishi Electric CITY
MULTI VRFZ, requires minimal on-site
fossil fuel to operate and takes heat out
of the ambient air, and depending on the

Exterior view of the Helena J. Sturnick Village at the Montserrat College of Art
season, moves it inside or out. The system
uses a variable frequency compressor so it
uses only the energy required to meet the
demand, while achieving a precise level
of comfort. The result is a highly efficient

heating and cooling operation with better
comfort inside.
Jim Burke, LEED AP, project manager with Windover Construction, said
a geothermal system had been consid-

ered for the project, but the return wasn’t
there. “With rising energy prices, the cost
to run the pumps for a geothermal system
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lar construction project to date. The eight
pre-fabricated pieces were constructed in
Concord, N.H. last winter. Burke noted
that prefabricating the building in modular
sections allowed Windover to build more
efficiently without the need for temporary
weather enclosures and inefficient temporary heating systems.
In addition, he said it went along
perfectly with the green theme, because
modular construction promotes a more efficient use of materials with less generation of waste.
Burke added another benefit: “Considering the density of the neighborhood,
the modular construction allowed us to get
the job done without a lot of noise disturbance to the surrounding homes and businesses.”
Windover faced a tight construction
deadline, as they had 13 months to have
the project ready for this fall’s arrival of
students. “We kept up a good pace. We did
hit some ledge when excavating the site,”
said Burke. “But we were able to do some
chipping and also changed the shape of the
foundation so we didn’t lose any time.”
Burke also said lining up the modular
pieces presented some minor challenges,
but that Windover’s “intense quality monitoring” at the factory prevented any major
delays from happening.
Recycling is another green theme at
the Sturnick Village. Windover re-used material from the former buildings, and much
of the new flooring contains pre-consumer
recycled and rapidly renewable content.
Student suites are also outfitted with recycling bins – assuring that the green trend
will continue beyond construction.

negated any savings. Switching to the
Mitsubishi system also saved $200,000
in up-front construction costs by not drilling the wells,” Burke noted. “In addition,
the long-term effect on groundwater quality and the effect of changing the thermal
characteristics of the groundwater from the
use of geothermal are still unknown.”
In addition to its sustainability components, the building, located in the heart
of the campus, is unique in many aspects
of its design. It was very important to make
it attractive, inviting, and comfortable both
for the students living there and for the college community surrounding it.
Thad Seimasko, the project’s architect, studied how the students live, interact,
and create. The results are that the complex
has many small gathering areas, both inside and out, and contains student artist
studio space in the basement.
Visually the building is very pleasing. With its series of large and small colonial structures, connected with a modern steel and glass core, the building has
settled well into the surrounding neighborhood, yet has the funky and creative feel
you would expect at an art college.
When asked about challenges they
faced during construction, Burke said site
constraints were the biggest problem. Surrounded by a public library, an active college, a dense neighborhood of residential
homes and the community common, Burke
said, “We literally had no open space in the
area for staging. That was among the reasons we chose to use modular construction
for the buildings.”
This was Windover’s biggest modu-

oston, MA - Contractor Federal
Construction Corp (FCC) of Lynnfield was recently awarded the
Italy-based high end retail footwear boutique, “Giuseppe Zanotti Design (GZD),” a
2,200sf fit-out in the Copley Mall.
Finishes include exotic woods in the
millwork, tile flooring, mirrors and metal
trims. Several of the key elements are being shipped directly from Italy. Architectural services will be provided by Colin
Smith Architects, Inc. of Lexington, and
Zade Partners, LLC of Boston will provide
engineering services.
All of the design originated from the
GZD corporate design team based in Italy.
The project began mid July and is
schedule to open in late 2009.
The $425,000 Project Consists of:
• The removal of the existing store’s
fit-out and finishes.
• Reworking of the mall’s wood
soffit to conform to the new storefront
layout and heights.
• Addition of two restrooms.
• Reworking of the existing fire
protection system and heads to conform
to the new sales area layout.
• Removal and replacing of
the existing mechanical systems and
associated work.
• Relocation of the rear door to
accommodate the new plumbing layout.

Construction in progress of new Northeast Veterans Training and Rehabilitation Center in Gardner.

New Veterans Center Nears Completion
Kuhn Riddle Architects

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Center (NVTRC) in Gardner, designed by Kuhn Riddle Architects of Amherst, will serve veterans of the wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan who have sustained
severe injuries such as loss of a limb, traumatic brain injury, post traumatic stress
disorder, and severe burns.
This residential center will be a place
to receive physical and emotional rehabilitation as well as educational training, while
living alongside their family.
Construction started with the conversion/renovation of a Kelton Street house
into the construction site office/operations
center; the house will eventually become
the NVTRC management office. The project will receive LEED Silver certification.

The Rehabilitation Center is situated
on 12 acres of land donated by Mount Wachusett Community College. The facilities
of the College are open to the veterans and
their families. The College has extended
free access to veterans and their family
members to the full curriculum of College
level classes. The College Day Care Center will also be available at no cost to the
families.
The Heywood Hospital, located directly across the street from the NVTRC
facility, will be part of the services available to the NVTRC program.
The veterans and families will be
housed in separate living quarters located
on the project grounds. These 10 duplex
wood-framed cottages will be approximately 2,500sf each unit with two bedrooms,

bath, kitchen and living area. The cottage
concept will allow the clients to practice
their living skills and provide privacy for
both the veteran and his or her family.
There will also be a 7,000sf therapy
building, which features an indoor therapy
pool, a weight/exercise room, and a golf
simulator.
Green building elements utilized in
this project include photovoltaic arrays,
geothermal ground source heating, and

structural insulated panels. Additionally,
no outside fill has been brought in for this
project; back-fill was preserved from the
site and foundation excavation and larger
rock from the site has been crushed on-site
to produce local aggregate.
The Northeast Veterans Training Facility will be owned and operated by Veteran Homestead in Fitchburg.

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High-Profile Feature: Johnson & Wales Harborside Campus

Johnson & Wales Development

rovidence, RI - The first new building in Johnson & Wales University’s
master plan for its Harborside campus will set the tone and direction for future
development. The building is expected to
receive Silver LEED certification from the
US Green Building Council.
Adjacent to a culinary arts museum
and expected to be a popular tour destination for the university, the building offers
maximum transparency to showcase and
celebrate the school’s culinary program.
Key instructional spaces include a diverse
range of kitchen labs, a wine tasting room,
and various types of instructional dining facilities.
The exterior is scaled and massed to
complement existing structures while presenting a clear identity that announces the
building as a public space. Various material types and textures create a welcoming
skin for this facility that is both learning
institution and observation center. Labs,
classrooms, and corridors are configured to
offer students and faculty enough privacy
to achieve an optimal learning experience
even as visitors look on.
The dean’s suite is designed as a glass
box lined with wine bottles. It features an
integrated conference/presentation room
that hovers dramatically over the main
lobby to illuminate the artistic aspect of the
culinary experience. New academic offices
on multiple floors integrate the faculty with
student traffic and activity.

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The building is sited on 100 acres
of a former shipyard in a designated flood
zone. Anticipating regular rising water, all
programmed areas are lifted above the 12foot flood clearance line. A shallow earth
terrace resolves into a graceful staircase
that accentuates the building’s elevated entrance and leads users gently up and into it.
For added safety in the event of a flood, the
lower walls incorporate breakaway technology to allow for the free flow of water.
In addition to addressing flood concerns, the raising of the building creates a

covered open space at the street level that
is conducive to year-round outdoor public
events, including ice carving. The open
space also unifies the other campus greens
that now reach out to a main intersection,
creating lawns and pedestrian footpaths
where building corners are expected. The
height of the building and the lifting of its
entry floors also provide students, faculty,
staff, and visitors with unrestricted and
sweeping views of nearby Narragansett
Bay.

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Once occupied by open water, the Johnson & Wales University’s Harborside
Campus presented remarkable challenges for Woodard & Curran engineers. The
vast majority of the 90+ acre campus is situated on fill imported to create the Providence Shipyard and remains in the floodplain of the Providence River. The first challenge for Woodard & Curran’s Center for Culinary Excellence site designer: How to
design a site for a building with a first floor 12 feet above the ground surface? Another challenge related to the Rhode Island Urban Coastal Greenway (UCG) policy
implemented in 2007. The firm’s engineers needed to determine how to incorporate
Low Impact Development (LID) techniques on a site with high groundwater and
almost no topographic relief between the site and the river. Woodard & Curran’s
engineers answered those challenges with an innovative design which incorporates
capturing roof runoff and then recycling it for irrigation and non-potable grey water
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High-Profile Feature: Visual Arts Center

Delta Design Completes Visual Arts Center
hestnut Hill, Ma – Delta Design
& Construction of Medford announced that the Robert Lloyd
Corkin Visual Arts Center, located on
the Brimmer and May School campus in
Chestnut Hill, has been completed.
Delta partnered with Imai Keller
Moore architects on this $1.6 million,
2600sf ground up art studio. The building,
constructed on the original footprint, was
designed to maintain the original historic
character of the late 1800’s carriage house
on the three sides that faced the neighborhood.
The north side of the building, by
contrast, was given a two-story wood curtain wall, illuminating the major studio
spaces and providing views to the wooded
hillside beyond. The mix of old and new is
most visible at the upper level, where reclaimed lumber rafters carry the eye up to

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Imai Keller Moore Architects
the cupola above. The project includes two
2D studios and a ceramics studio.
The art studio will provide space for
three art studios and a ceramics studio as
well as exhibit space for the students to
display their work.
“This was an exciting project to be a
part of, and it was great working with both
Brimmer and May School and IKM. The
project team really came together to overcome many challenges, and together we
completed a wonderful art studio,” stated
Derek Pelletier, president of Delta Design
& Construction.
Brimmer and May, an early childhood through grade 12, coeducational, independent day school, serves a culturally
and socio-economically diverse student
body from approximately 40 communities
in greater Boston and 10 foreign countries.

The Robert Lloyd Corkin Visual Arts Center

Words From the Architects
Imai Keller Moore

A deep closet running the full width of the room provides for organizing supplies. Storage zones are concealed with homasote-clad sliding doors on barn-door tracks. Photography by Chris Johnson

Old and new cupola/dormers. The weathervane was designed by a sculptor/alumnus who works with bronze.

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“The school asked us to renovate an 1890’s Carriage House located at the
corner of their campus, for use as an Art Studio center.
The design we proposed inserted a two-story glass wall on the north side
of the building to maximize natural light and views across the tracks to the
heavily landscaped hillside beyond. On the three other sides of the structure,
we maintained fairly conservative window and door treatment, in keeping with
the historic nature of the building.
“Although the project was designed as a renovation of the historic barn,
the condition of the fieldstone foundation was ultimately determined to be too
poor to stabilize. The final design, therefore, was for a completely new building, maintaining the volume and placement of the original structure to meet
the requirements of the Historic Commission and the Building Dept. Salvaged
wood rafters were used at the upper level studio ceiling.”

The mix of old and new is most visible at the upper level, where reclaimed lumber
rafters carry the eye to the cupola above.

A two-story glass wall was inserted on the
north side hidden from the campus and the
neighboring houses.

artford, CT-Aetna has been undergoing major interior renovations
in their Hartford Atrium Building
facility. The atrium concourse area, designed by Perkins+Will is approximately
10,000sf, and only one of the many spaces
in the building undergoing
renovation.
The building
will become the main entry
on Aetna’s Hartford campus
for recruiting. The concourse
area is the primary path for
most users entering the building either from the main entrance, the garage, or the Rogers building.
This portion of the concourse is within the multi-story atrium. The vast glass ceiling structure illuminates the
space and surrounding balconies with natural light. The
scale of the space provided
Perkins+Will the opportunity
to use the client’s branding
throughout the atrium space.
One design element is
a custom terrazzo floor which
incorporates Aetna’s “Value
Wheel.” The branding colors
and messaging elements developed by Aetna’s Creative
Services group have been inte-

grated into the architectural design through
the use of printed stretched fabric panels
and text applied to glass walls with colored
film. These colorful graphics integrated
throughout the space signify the new division which will occupy the space.

rector of the Connecticut office she oversees office management and design.
In addition to Perkins + Will, the core
team for the atrium renovation expected to
be completed in October includes: Skanska
USA Building, CM; Grubb & Ellis, Facility Managers; Aetna Creative Services;
Kohler Ronan, MEP and Aetna Real Estate
Services. Stretched fabric panels were provided by Moss, Inc. and Terrazzo floor was
installed by Joseph P. Cohn. The other adjacent areas were completed by other local
architectural firms.

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A coffee kiosk situated at the entry
on the main ground floor serves as a welcoming anchor and the first stop to pick up
a cup of coffee or a quick snack during the
day. Integrated within the space are “touchdown” spaces which provide a convenient
place for an impromptu meeting.
Perkins+Will principal Stevanie
Demko, IIDA and LEED AP, has over
30-years experience with diverse renovation projects and new construction interior
architectural projects in both the corporate
and educational sectors. As Managing Di-

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For this project Sil/Carr completed six floors, 500,000
sq. ft., of interior demolition. We removed masonry and
sheetrock walls, flooring, and ceilings. In a second phase
we completed concrete demolition for new elevator shafts
as well as for new skylights.

est Roxbury, MA - Landmark Structures Corporation, a full service General
Contractor/Construction Management Company, is continuing work on a
7,500sf addition and 9,500sf renovation project at Blanchard’s Liquors
headquarters, in West Roxbury.
The two-phase project, slated for completion at the end of November, will
include a 7,500sf addition that will house a basement storage space, retail space, and
second floor offices including a wine tasting room. Landmark Structures will also renovate the facility’s existing 9,500sf retail and office space.
MacKinlay Electric is proud to be involved in the modernization of this West
Roxbury neighborhood fixture. We have the ability to install state of the art energy efficient lighting as well as updated fire and sprinkler monitoring systems. We handled the
necessary permitting and inspections to allow Blanchards to continue to serve their
customers in this new retail space. Expertise in new construction and renovations of
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in the future. for Nuvera Fuel Cells

Margulies Perruzzi Wins
IIDA N.E. Award

Boston, MA - Margulies Perruzzi Architects announced that its
work on the corporate headquarters
for Nuvera Fuel Cells was honored
with an Interior Design Award in the
Office Category (50,000-80,000sf)
from the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) of New
England.
Nuvera Fuel Cells is creating
the world’s energy source for the
future. The development of its new
corporate headquarters in Billerica
was part of a strategy to increase
collaboration and productivity, as
well as address a growing need for
Frame
additional lab space.
The new headquarters includes 40,000sf of office space,

a 20,000sf laboratory, a 15,000sf
training center, a café, a shipping/
receiving area, a mechanical room, a
lobby/museum, and common areas.
Phase two, which includes 20,000sf
of manufacturing space, will bring
the project total to 110,000sf.
Daniel Madru, LEED AP, senior associate and project manager,
and Dorie Weintraub, AIA, LEED
AP, lead interior designer, led the
Margulies Perruzzi Architects team.
Erland Construction was the general contractor for this project; RDK
Engineers provided the mechanical,
electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering; and the fire code specialist
was Rolf Jensen Associates.

GEI MBTA Project Awarded
Elkus Manfredi Architect

Boston, MA - GEI Consultants, Inc. announced that the
Massachusetts Bay Transportation
Authority (MBTA) Charles Street/
MGH Station Redline Accessibility/Modernization Project won a
Preservation Achievement Award
from the Boston Preservation Alliance in the “Significant New Construction” category.
The awards are bestowed
annually to honor outstanding
achievements in historic preservation and compatible new construction in Boston. Recipients are selected from nominations that are
solicited at the end of eachAbove
calendar
and below: Interior renovations
year.
GEI Consultants served as
the geotechnical and environmental
engineer on this project. Work involved data collection; subsurface
exploration and laboratory testing
programs; foundation design; and
geotechnical construction reports
and specifications. GEI’s environmental work entailed a detailed site
Interior view of award-winning modernization
assessment to determine potential
project. Photo credit: Kessler Photography
existing contamination; a soil and
groundwater sampling program in
conjunction with the geotechnical exploration program; and preparation of the construction specifications for the management
of excavated materials and dewatering effluent..
The project team consisted of Elkus
Manfredi Architects, architect; HDR En-

Rhino PR Receives National Award
South Hamilton, MA Rhino Public Relations has been
honored with a Marketing Communications Award (MCA) from
the Society of Marketing Professional Services (SMPS). Rhino
PR and its client GEI Consultants were recognized with a
First Place Award in the category
“External Corporate Communications Program: Media Relations Campaign.”
Composed of more than 80
experienced professionals from
the building industry, the SMPS
Chris Stockwell (GEI), Kelly Cohane (GEI), and
jury commented on the submisSusan Shelby (Rhino PR) accept a Marketing Comsion from Rhino PR and GEI
munications Award at the SMPS Awards Gala in Las
Consultants Inc.: ”The involveVegas. Photography by Paul Morgan.
ment across the firm in this media
logical science and engineering
seek out strong, credentialed,
and trusted suppliers,” said
Chris Stockwell, senior vice
president and chief marketing
officer at GEI Consultants.
The focus of the award
is the national public relations
program and strategy that Rhino
PR helped GEI Consultants create and implement. The results
of this program included 45 media related
initiatives and increased media visibility
throughout 2008.

“Clients interested in geotechnical, environmental, water resources and ecological
science and engineering seek out strong,
credentialed, and trusted suppliers.”
–Chris Stockwell,
senior vice president and chief
marketing officer at GEI Consultants.
relations campaign was impressive, as were
the concrete and measurable results.”
“Clients interested in geotechnical,
environmental, water resources and eco-

Saint-Gobain Awarded ISO Cert.

Grand Island, NY – Saint-Gobain
Technical Fabrics, which specializes in the
design, production and distribution of functional materials for the construction, industrial and consumer markets announced
that both of their Glass Mat manufacturing
plants have been awarded ISO 9001:2008
certification by the International Organization for Standardization.
The plants located in Charleston, SC
and Russellville, AL manufacture glass mat
products made of non-woven wet-formed
fiberglass sheets bonded together with a
binder system for a wide variety of build-

ing materials industries. With these recent
awards, now all of Saint-Gobain Technical Fabrics manufacturing plants in North
America are ISO 9001 certified.
In order to receive the certification
the plants had to undergo rigorous inspections to demonstrate their comprehensive
quality management system including processes for customer service, recordkeeping, adherence to customer requirements
and continuous product improvement.
The certification was conducted by
QMI – SAI Global, North America’s leading management systems registrar.

Suffolk Construction Awarded
Boston, MA - Suffolk Construction Company, Inc. was recently
recognized for its firstclass safety program by
achieving Platinum Award
status after participating
in the Harvard Contractor Safety Assessment
Program. The assessment
is an independent evaluation administered by ConstructSecure, Inc., which
reviews safety programs
of companies performing
work at Harvard University. The organization measured both historical performance
and forward-looking factors within compa-

nies’ safety programs.
The award recognizes the comprehensive safety program Suffolk put in
place as it completed
renovations to several
student residence halls
at Harvard University
over the summer.
Doug Ware, Suffolk’s national safety
director, noted that the
Harvard project team
achieved a score of
95.59 out of 100 on the assessment, qualifying Suffolk for the Platinum Award.

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High-Profile: Awards

John M. Clancy Award Winners Announced
Boston, MA - Edelman Sultan Knox
Wood/Architects, Bergmeyer Associates
and Hacin + Associates took top honors in
this year’s John M. Clancy Award for Socially Responsible Housing program.
The biennial design awards program, established by Goody Clancy in recognition of John Clancy FAIA, recognizes
excellence in the planning, design and
construction of multifamily housing for
the diverse populations of our nation at all
income levels.
The jury chose five projects out of
35 submissions to be honored. Here are the
the jurors’ comments.
“In the third year of the John M.
Clancy award program, we examined 35
submissions that represented projects built
nationwide. We were pleased to review
projects that incorporated strategies for
transitional housing in addition to projects
meant for permanent residence.
“We agreed that to be called socially
responsible, a project must contribute to the
community and the built and natural environment that make up its physical context,
while meeting the special requirements of
people in need.
“Greatly appealing to us was a
marked increase in the number of projects
addressing environmental sustainability,
which shows that thoughtful design does
not price such features out of affordable
housing.
“More unexpected was the increase
in the number of developments serving
children aging out of foster care – a popu-

Pond View Village. Photographer Richard Mandelkorn.
lation that appears to be on the rise.
We wished for better explorations
of family housing within ‘elevator’ buildings. And we wanted to see more developments in urban centers, as these can create
housing opportunities with a high level of
amenities and services for resident populations with unique healthcare, education or
counseling needs.”
Three Massachusetts projects were
honored:
Honor Awards For Design Excellence
- Multifamily affordable housing in
Gloucester.
Designed by Bergmeyer Associates,
Boston. Michael R. Davis, AIA, LEED AP
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multibuilding factory complex
created workforce housing—via
adaptive reuse amplified by new
construction—on a wonderful site
with water views and great natural
beauty. Nonproductive buildings
on the overdeveloped site were
selectively demolished to improve
cross-site circulation and to offer
more pond views, while the remaining wood-frame mill buildings were converted into lovely
double-height living spaces.
New buildings were planned
only for sites of demolished buildings; existing subterranean spaces
were turned into indoor parking;
and the site’s former parking lot
and abandoned railroad were
transformed into green spaces
and a courtyard, respectively. The
result of this masterplan is a transit-oriented development that’s intimate
in scale and rich with wonderful housing
forms.
Project team members: Cape Ann
Housing Authority, Cutler Associates,
Worcester; VIVA Consulting, Newton; Judith Nitsch Engineering, Boston; Wozny/
Barbar and Associates, Hanover; Abernona Engineering, Winchester; Carol R.
Johnson Associates, Boston; Solar Design
Associates, Harvard; Richard Mandelkorn
Photography, Lincoln; and Derick Veliz
photographer, Acton.
Project Place – Gatehouse in Boston
Designed by Hacin + Associates,
Boston.
This newly constructed building in
Boston’s South End features 14 affordable
single-room-occupancy units (13 for the
formerly homeless), an active ground-floor
restaurant, and office and program space
for the building’s nonprofit owner.
We liked the plan for this compact
building, which includes two geothermal
wells and ensures long-term affordability
through energy-efficient features that keep
operating expenses down and commercial
space that helps subsidize the SRO units.
The design is one of the better examples of mixed-used development: there’s a

Project Gatehouse in Boston.
Photo credit Gregg Shupe
Awards
- Waverly Woods in Belmont
Designed by Mostue & Associates
Architects, Somerville
In exchange for the right to redevelop the massive former MacLean Hospital
site into luxury townhouses, an assistedliving community and a research/development facility, a tiny corner of the site was
set aside for the construction of affordable
housing.
Despite the site’s severe slope,
ledge outcroppings, scraggly tree growth
and heavy traffic on one edge, it has been
magically transformed by a solid plan. The
housing now fits in so well that it looks
like it was easy to develop—while offering pedestrian access to Waverly Square,
Belmont’s only multimodal transportation
node.
The development’s architecture is
sensitive to the scale of neighboring properties and features facades that are detailed
at a level comparable to some of the town’s
finest homes.
Project team members: Affirmative
Investments, Boston; DeVellis Zrein, Foxborough; Dan Bonardi Consulting Engineers, Somerville; Wozny/Barbar & Associates, Hanover and Erland Construction,
Burlington.

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High-Profile Feature: Mount Ida Veterinary Center

Mount Ida Veterinary Center
Designed by CBT Architects - Built by Cutler Associates

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ewton, MA - The new Center for
Veterinary Technology at Mount
Ida College brings the independent
baccalaureate college in Newton one step
closer to its vision of providing students,
and a growing industry, with the top veterinary technology program in the country. The new center will allow Mount Ida
to meet growing demand for its highly respected curriculum, one of only 16 accredited veterinary technology bachelor degree
programs in the country.
Designed by CBT Architects and
built by Cutler Associates, the $6 million,
16,000sf facility consolidates all of the veterinary technology faculty offices, classrooms, laboratories, and animal facilities
under one roof.
The program includes humane housing and animal treatment clinics for dogs,
cats, rodents, and rabbits, with day-visit facilities for large animals. The building also
features surgery, recovery, and laboratory
facilities equipped with the most modern
technology. A large radiology space, outfitted with an innovative digital radiography
system, will allow students to learn the latest techniques and procedures for animal
medical care and treatment.
The Vet Tech project is the second
major recent construction project undertaken by the College in almost a decade and
represents the College’s next step in the
achievement of its long-term master plan.
In 2008, Cutler Associates built a new resi-

The facility is tightly sited between several existing classroom buildings and the athletic fields.
dence hall for the campus.
“We’re pleased to be able to continue to work with Mount Ida as they execute their Master Plan,” said Rod Shaffert,
vice president of Cutler Associates. “The
collaboration and continuity that has developed between our teams enables us to
deliver these complex projects with maximum value for the College.”
Cutler was hired as construction
manager early in the preconstruction process with the hope that, by working as an
integrated team with the architect and the
owner, all of the design and programming
goals for the project could be achieved
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The complex includes two clinical laboratories as well as a surgical suite. All are
equipped with the most modern technology.
this objective, Cutler provided ongoing
cost information for building systems and
materials, value engineering, and constructability analysis so that the architect could
maximize the value of the design and the
owner could make informed decisions regarding the scope.
The firm’s experience on campus
and with local officials proved essential
to maintaining the project schedule. “The
location and condition of the existing utilities on the building site were not entirely
known before we began construction,” explained Shaffert. “But after our experience
working on the residence hall we were able
to quickly perform a series of infrastructure upgrades to the electricity, telcom, and
gas.”

Reflecting Mount Ida College’s
commitment to environmental responsibility, the new complex incorporates sustainable design and construction concepts
equivalent to Silver LEED certification.
Green concepts include improved plumbing and optimal energy systems that will
reduce energy and water usage. The HVAC
design included enhanced system capacity
to provide outside air 30% above code requirements and individual lighting controls
reduce electricity usage.
After breaking ground in August of
2008, finishing touches on the building
were completed in July and the first classes
were held as students returned to campus at
the end of August.

pitals/Clinics, Office Buildings, Parking
Structures, Residential - MultiFamily
(Apartments/Condos)
Value: $5 million
Location: Seymour, CT.
Senior apartment building with a
three-level underground parking garage.
The project includes 26 one-bedroom
units and space for social activities and
medical practitioners.
Note: 6/16/09, a representative of
O’Riordan Migani Architects stated they
are currently in the planning stages of
this project’s development.
June 15, 2009 The developer/architect presented plans for he project
to the planning and zoning commission
on 6/11/09. As of that date, Phase I is
complete and Migani has not yet filed a
formal application for Phase II. The Seymour Housing Authority is a partner on
the project.
Architect/Developer Joseph Migani, Principal, O’Riordan Migani Architects, Seymour, CT
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Developer David Keyser, Executive Director, Seymour Housing Authority, Seymour, CT
Continued on page 44

Keene, NH – The New
Hampshire Chapter of the
American Institute of Architects (AIANH) announced the
results of its 2008-2009 High
School Design Competition.
This program is a design competition that requires students
to work on a theoretical project throughout the school year
under the guidance of their instructors.
AIANH volunteers visit
the schools when possible to
give critiques before the submissions are due. The program
involves a design solution, a
three-dimensional model, and
a graphic plan of the project.
Winners are:
Best Design, Overall
Superiority, in all aspects of
Design Solution, Model, and
Graphic Presentation: Julie
Rahilly, Nashua High School;
Shaun Russell, Salem High
Daniel Oot of Portsmouth High displays his
School; Gina Fantoni and
award winning project.
Gage Littlefield, Pinkerton
Academy.
Best Model describing Design So- High School; Mike Morin and Steve Heblution: 1. Danny Oot, Portsmouth High sch, Pinkerton Academy; Erin Hartmann
School; Gina Fantoni, Pinkerton Academy; and Ethan Webb, Pinkerton Academy
Honorable Mention: Lesley Miller,
Mike Morin & Steve Hebsch, Pinkerton
Conval
High School; Bo Ratio, Conval
Academy.
High
School;
Mary Pratt, Conval High
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ing Design Solution: Julie Rahilly, Nashua,

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High-Profile: News

International Village Completed

Advanced TrimWright
New Division

Design - Office Resources and Gensler

Office Resources, in conjunction with Gensler, furnished
and designed International Village,
the newest residence hall at Northeastern University. The building
consists of three towers and covers
436,800sf, including a dining hall,
laundry facilities, a fitness area,
television lounges, game rooms and
study rooms.
International Village also
holds an 87-seat lecture hall, a 44-

Taunton, MA - Advanced
TrimWright, Inc. (ATW), a
leading fabricator of PVC products based in Taunton, recently
announced a new Commercial
Division to specifically cater to
the construction needs of office
building, retail and restaurant
owners.
ATW has been catering ATW’s Richard Orsi,
to homeowners throughout the vice president of
Massachusetts and Rhode Isoperations

land area for years, and now the
company offers its high quality
exterior trim products to businesses on the East Coast through
its Commercial Division.
The company also offers
custom products. If the right
product doesn’t exist, ATW’s
experienced team, with stateof-the-art CAD capabilities and
superior craftsmanship, can produce a custom solution.

Page Completes Renovation
Designed by Dyer Brown
Boston, MA - Page Building Construction of Stoughton has completed a
10th floor interior renovation at 2 Oliver St. for the new Boston office of Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau and Saturley, PC,
trial lawyers. The 7,368sf renovation
was designed and constructed in eight
Interior views of the newest residence hall
at Northeastern University.

weeks.
The interior design was completed by Dyer Brown & Associates of Boston, and the engineering was performed
by Commercial Construction Consulting of Boston.

AC Stone Acquires N.E. Stone

seat tiered classroom, and four seminar
Don and Angela Conte of AC Stone,
rooms that seat 24.
LLC acquired the fabrication facility forThe facility houses five floors of
merly operated by New England Stone,
university administrative offices. Knoll
LLC on May 1, 2009.
Dividends Horizon was selected for both
The new company, Structural Stone,
private offices and workstations.
LLC – WBE/DBE, is in operation and is a

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High-Profile: People

Hoffmann Welcomes Three
Hamden, CT
– Hoffmann Architects, an architecture
and engineering firm,
welcomed three new
staff members.
Margaret
A.
Molnar-Ryan, AIA
LEED AP, joins Hoffmann’s Connecticut
Molnar-Ryan
office as project architect. With more
than 17 years of experience in architectural design, document production, and
construction administration, Molnar-Ryan,
who is a certified LEED AP, is proficient
at negotiating the multi-faceted demands of
successful project completion. Her responsibilities with the firm will include building
condition evaluation, design development,
construction oversight, and project coordination.
Donna L. Rehm-McCabe comes to
Hoffmann Architects with over 20 years
of finance experience. She has held seniorlevel accounting positions for a diverse

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seymourhousingauthority.com
Buildings 141 and 156 Repairs
and Additions
Project Type: Conventions/Arenas, Government Buildings, Hospitals/
Clinics, Libraries
Value: $7.5 million $5 million to
$10 million.
Location: Groton, CT.
Located at Naval Submarine Base
New London.
Renovations and additions to
two buildings at a Navy base. Work on
Building 141 includes a new chilled water system, electrical upgrades, interior
wall restoration, finishes and lighting,
restroom restoration, ADA compliance
and exterior repairs. The project also includes a steel-frame technical/research
library addition. Building 156 work includes a new chilled water system, electrical upgrades, interior wall restoration,
finishes and lighting, restroom, door,
and ceiling restoration, a new elevator,
ADA compliance, and exterior repairs.
The building will also see the addition
of a submarine medicine research and
conference facility with a concrete foundation and steel frame and a connector
to Building 141.
Note: June 8, 2009 The Navy issued a presolicitation notice for small
business design/build contractors for
the project on 6/8/09. Respondents must
register with the Department of Defense
Central Contractor Registration database. An invitation for bid will be issued
in July 2009, and bids will be opened
in August 2009. Construction must be

Rehm-McCabe

Booher

Tillou Joins Cannon
Boston, MA - Cannon Design announced that Michael Tillou, PE, LEED®
AP, has joined the firm as Associate Vice
President. He will serve as leader of the
firm’s Energy Services Group.
Prior to joining the firm, Tillou established Tillou Engineering. He has practiced
for 15 years, and is currently serving as a
member on the ASHRAE Standard 90.1
committee, helping to set national building

efficiency standards.
Tillou brings to the firm five core staff
members from Tillou Engineering: Susan
B. Abrams; Anne H. Karbinos, Daniel R.
Louis, Lisa Carey Moore, and Charles H.
Stevenson. The team will continue to support the goal of making energy modeling
a simple, cost-effective component of the
design process.

Betts Passes PE Examination

group of firms, including Cadbury USA,
the World Wrestling Federation (Titan
Cambridge, MA – Mike Betts, seSports, Inc.), the New Haven Symphony nior project manager at Thomas G. GalOrchestra, and the University of Hartford. lagher, Inc., has passed the MassachuShe will be responsible for all activities of setts Professional Engineer examination
the firm’s accounting department.
in Mechanical Engineering.
Pierson W. Booher brings special“Occupationally, there are a lot
ized knowledge of historic preservation of situations as a mechanical contractor
to his position as project representative at
Hoffmann’s New York City office. He will
provide architectural support for the firm’s
projects in the form of condition evaluaNewton, MA
tion, design detailing, and assisting in con- Diversified Project
struction administration.
Management, Inc.
(DPM) announced
that three members
of its project management team have
achieved Massachusetts Certified Public
complete within 555 days of notice to
Purchasing Official
proceed.
Zawatsky
(MCPPO) status.
Owner: Judy Biboum, Contract
DPM’s
reSpecialist, United States Navy
cently certified staff members are: Tony
Naval Facilities Engineering
Sievers, LEED AP, MCPPO; Tim SingleCommand, Mid-Atlantic Division, Norton, ASHE, MCPPO and Marc Zawatsky,
folk, VA
LEED AP, CCM, MCPPO.
PH: 757-444-0684 - Email: Judy.
The MCPPO program was estabBiboum@navy.mil, http://www.navy
lished to promote cost-effective, ethical
Project Manager, US General Serand modern purchasing practices in comvices Administration (GSA).New Engpliance with Mass. contracting laws. It is a
land Region, Boston, MA
PH: 866-734-1727, http://www.
gsa.gov

where it’s important to have an engineer
on staff, a responsibility I can now fill,”
said Betts.
Betts can now use his P.E. stamp
to certify drawings, memos and affidavits of compliance in the course of a
project.

Three Achieve MCPPO Status

Sievers

Singleton

requirement of the Mass. School Building
Authority that all owner’s project managers involved in procurement for such projects are designated as MCPPOs.
With the designation of its new MCPPOs, DPM hopes to improve its position
and provide more staffing flexibility when
pursuing public projects.

Boston, MA - Ingeborg Hegemann,
PWS, a BSC Group vice president, has
been appointed to serve on the national
Certification Review Panel for the Society
of Wetland Scientists Professional Certification Program (SWSPCP).
The program was established to encourage and strengthen standards related
to wetland science professions, including
ecologists, hydrologists, soil scientists,
educators, agency professionals, and consultants.
Hegemann has over 25 years of experience in environmental planning, wetlands

assessment and impact analysis, and
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private sector clients
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High-Profile: People

Jones Lang LaSalle New Directors
Boston, MA Jones Lang LaSalle
Incorporated
has
named Alex Dauria
as managing director, and Ben Breslau
and John Schena as
national
directors
from the Boston Region. Chris Beeson,
Dauria
Stephen Flint, David
Girard, Dana Griffin,
and Mark Jolly were named associate directors.
Dauria is an executive vice president
on the firm’s leasing team. With 26 years of
real estate experience, Dauria focuses his
attention on corporate relocation, developer/landlord representation, investment
sales, and acquisitions.
Breslau, sr. vice president, directs
the overall activities of the firm’s research
team in the Americas. He has added innovative and customized analysis tools to traditional market reports that the firm leverages to help clients make sound real estate
decisions.
Schena is a sr. vice president on the
project and development services team.
He is currently in the role of account team
leader for clients Fidelity Investments, and
the Reebok Adidas Group in the US. In this
role he provides advisory service and operational management focused on personnel,
strategy, tools, processes and execution.
Beeson, vice president, serves as
facility manager and is responsible for
500,000sf for ING in Windsor, Conn. and
oversight of an additional 1.5 million sf for
other owners throughout the region.
Flint, as a controller in construction

finance, heads a team
of five accountants
that support the Construction team in the
New England, MidAtlantic, and Chicago regions.
Girard,
vice
president, is a project manager for
Breslau
Jones Lang LaSalle’s
project and development services team. He has extensive geotechnical and environmental experience
with complex below grade construction on
environmentally sensitive sites throughout
Boston and Cambridge, MA.
Griffin is a vice president on the Jones
Lang LaSalle construction team where he
specializes in tenant fit-ups, ground up construction of new buildings, and data center
renovations.
Jolly, vice president and regional Finance director, is responsible for the annual real estate budget and revenue for five
corporate clients across the northeast.
These individuals were also promoted: Bruce Clifford and Amy Forman to
senior vice president; Jeff Burke, Bill DiPippo and Chris Hardiman to vice president;
Nat Heald to assistant vice president; Kevin
Byrne, Scott Dean, Danielle McLaughlin,
and Patrick Triggs, to senior project manager; Jennifer Mauren to property manager; Rebekah Dix to operations manager;
Jenna Scaccia to human resources business
partner; Abby Kruchten to senior analyst;
Charlotte Railton to senior marketing associate; Lorena Hawkins to senior proposal
manager; and Kelly Lockberg to operations
associate.

Sean Sanger LEED Accredited
Boston, MA - Copley
Wolff Design Group (CWDG)
announced that Sean Sanger,
ASLA, principal, is now a
LEED Accredited Professional.
Sanger’s accreditation brings
the number of LEED AP staff at
the firm to five.
Sanger

Tsoi/Kobus Adds Moskowitz
Tsoi/Kobus & Associates of Cambridge added Jay
Moskowitz to its marketing team.
Moskowitz has more than 15 years of marketing
experience including five-plus years in the architecture/
engineering/construction industry.
Most recently he was marketing manager with the
Boston office of WSP Flack + Kurtz, a mechanical, electrical and plumbing engineering firm.
Moskowitz

Tighe & Bond Names Horowitz

Westfield, MA – Tighe &
Bond, Inc. announced that David
P. Horowitz, P.E., CSP, has recently been named leader of the
regulatory compliance technical
practice group.
Since joining Tighe &
Bond in 1998, Horowitz has
been a key contributor to the
firm’s success, focusing his efforts on regulatory compliance
with emphasis on storage tank

program manager, to senior associate;
Patrick Barry, director of telecommunications engineering, to senior associate;
Peter Garvey, director of environmental
engineering, to senior associate; Dennis
Reip, director of structural engineering,
to senior associate; Peter Caldarazzo,
a project manager and environmental engineer, to associate, and Gregory
Nawrotzki, a project manager and telecommunications engineer, to associate.
In addition, George Jacobs, manager of Dewberry’s New Haven, Conn.
office, has been promoted to associate
vice president.

Zayas Earns CTS Certification

Bloomfield, CT - BVH
Integrated Services, Inc. announced that Felix Zayas, CTS
has earned his certification from
InfoComm International.
Zayas is employed as a
technology specialist at BVH.
The certified technology
specialist (CTS) credential is for
audiovisual professionals who

have demonstrated extensive
knowledge of the technology
used in audio, video and display
systems, and a competence, dedication and commitment to their
profession.
More than 9,000 AV professionals are currently InfoComm certified.

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Dewberry Promotions
Fairfax, VA - Dewberry, a nationally recognized consulting firm based in
Fairfax, announced several promotions
in its northeast offices. The firm has
more than 40 locations throughout the
United States.
In Dewberry’s Boston office,
Bradford Mills, assistant branch manager, has been promoted to associate vice
president. He is responsible for contract
administration, design, quality assurance, and management for numerous
transportation projects.
Other promotions include Scott
Choquette, CFM, a disaster mitigation

Sanger has been a principal at CWDG since 2006 and has
overseen some of the company’s
high profile projects including
the Central Artery/Tunnel Wharf
District Park in Boston, The Trial
Court in Worcester, and the Camden (NJ) Waterfront Park.

Greenbuild Expo
Congress Unplugged
Massachusetts Building Congress (MBC) will host Congress Unplugged at the House of Blues, Boston. Mingle with colleagues from the
real estate, design, and construction
industry. Cocktails, hors d’oeuvres,
music, giveaways, and good company. No speakers, no agenda, just fun.
Come get connected!
Thursday, September 24, House
of Blues, 15 Lansdowne Street, Boston, MA
Tickets: $45 for all members
and non members. 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
Register: www.buildingcongress.org
or by phone: 978-921-9222

International Conference and Expo
Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ
November 10 through November 12
2009.
Green Plants for Green Buildings, a
non profit charitable education group, will
inform expo attendees on the importance of

MBC
The MBC Hall of Fame Annual DinnerOctober 22
Seaport Cityview Ballroom, Boston
6 p.m. reception, followed by dinner
and the program at 7 p.m.
Tickets $175, tables of 10 $1,750
For more information. call the MBC
office at 978-921-9222, or go to the MBCWeb site at www.buildingcongress.org
The MBC Hall of Fame provides a
forum for the building industry to recognize, celebrate and publicize the work of
expemlary companies.

AGC Gala
AGC of Massachusetts Industry Gala
and Awards Celebration.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
The Intercontinental Hotel, Boston
The evening event will
bring together leading owners, contractors, subcontractors and architects in
a display of collaboration
and effective team-building
practices.
For more information: http://www.
agcmass.org.

Coming in

integrating natural foliage within the green
building design.
GPGB will present significant evidence indicating that live interior plants are
crucial to the overall environmental quality
within a building.
Get ready for World Workplace
http://www.greenbuildexpo.org.
2009.
IFMA’s World Workplace is hosted
annually by the International Facility Management Association (IFMA).
The Steel Fabricators of New EngIFMA’s World Workplace encomland
passes the vast educational, networking
Membership Dinand buying opportunities available through
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IFMA year-round. The association’s knowlMetals Service Center
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Institute (MSCI)
three-day, world-class gathering of facility
Wednesday, October 14, 2009.
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The event will provide you with the
Conference and expo activities take
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MSCI colleagues and to hear from John J. Center (OCCC), South Concourse, 9899
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IFMA

SFNE Dinner Meeting

Green Leadership Program
Beginning September 24, The Green Roundtable/NEXUS introduces the Green
Change Leader program, a year-long series of monthly workshops for small, strategically mixed groups – owners, architects, engineers, contractors and consultants.
The program delivers valuable, lasting results both for change management
leaders responsible for their organization’s green progress and younger practitioners
who want to add change management skills to their professional toolkit.
For more information log onto http://www.nexusboston.com/space/events.
html/2009/8

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with a news release of your projects, expert advice for owners,
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